Notable Treasure Hunters
- Capt. Martin Bayerle located the shipwreck of RMS Republic in 1981.
- Mel Fisher (discoverer of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha)
- Cork Graham (war correspondent, author)
- Mike Hatcher (discoverer of the "Nanking Cargo")
- Juan Ponce de León (searched the new world for gold and the Fountain of Youth)
- Robert F. Marx (underwater archaeologist, author)
- Odyssey Marine Exploration has extracted treasure from the shipwreck of the SS Republic
- Dr. E. Lee Spence (pioneer underwater archaeologist, author)
- Heinrich Schliemann (grocer turned treasure hunter, considered father of historical archaeology, discoverer of lost city of Troy)
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